You state one item I ask you to look at more closely:”The growing demand for meat is also threatening food availability as it takes about 10 pounds of grain and enormous amounts of water to produce 1 pound of meat.”

Your comment is accurate in as much as you look at conventional farming practices, but not if you look at traditional farming practices. If grazing animals are raised in harmony with nature and their nature, they are not fed grain at all. Cows, for example, are grazing animals and as such eat grasses. Grass grows on land not suitable for other crops that demand flat land and higher fertility. Grazing is appropriate use of marginal land, such as in the Sierra Nevada Foothills, to produce more food. Using marginal land for grazing animals is in harmony with nature and the true nature of the animal, providing food from lands not usable for other types of food production. Eat grass-fed local meat!

As far as the water part of the comment goes, I am always amazed at how much water is required to water my vegetables. One little plant gets several gallons a day to produce a few eggplants or squash. A more true comment might be: It takes an enormous amount of water to produce food.

Many blessings,
Jennifer